Bug 403281

Summary:	RTNL: assertion failed at net/core/dev.c when entering/leaving promiscuous mode
Product:	[Fedora] Fedora	Reporter:	Bertil Askelid <bertil>
Component:	kernel	Assignee:	Kernel Maintainer List <kernel-maint>
Status:	CLOSED NOTABUG	QA Contact:	Fedora Extras Quality Assurance <extras-qa>
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Version:	8
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Hardware:	i686
OS:	Linux
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Description Bertil Askelid 2007-11-28 19:00:22 UTC

Description of problem:

When a VMware client is started or stopped, promiscuous mode is changed for the 
ethernet interface /dev/eth0 used to access the Internet. This causes the
following traceback from the kernel due to a failed assertion:

Nov 28 09:46:36 z kernel: RTNL: assertion failed at net/core/dev.c (2595)
Nov 28 09:46:36 z kernel:  [<c05bb422>] __dev_set_promiscuity+0x3f/0x115
Nov 28 09:46:36 z kernel:  [<c04b20a7>] proc_register+0xcf/0xf0
Nov 28 09:46:36 z kernel:  [<c04b2136>] create_proc_entry+0x6e/0x81
Nov 28 09:46:36 z kernel:  [<c05bb6ee>] dev_set_promiscuity+0x10/0x24
Nov 28 09:46:36 z kernel:  [<f8f09798>] VNetBridgeStartPromisc+0x22/0x41 [vmnet]
Nov 28 09:46:36 z kernel:  [<f8f08515>] VNetHubPortsChanged+0x8e/0x9d [vmnet]
Nov 28 09:46:36 z kernel:  [<f8f0757a>] VNetConnect+0x8a/0x8f [vmnet]
Nov 28 09:46:36 z kernel:  [<f8f07eab>] VNetFileOpOpen+0xc0/0x149 [vmnet]
Nov 28 09:46:36 z kernel:  [<c0483742>] chrdev_open+0x111/0x14e
Nov 28 09:46:36 z kernel:  [<c0483631>] chrdev_open+0x0/0x14e
Nov 28 09:46:36 z kernel:  [<c047f9f5>] __dentry_open+0xd5/0x18c
Nov 28 09:46:36 z kernel:  [<c047fb26>] nameidata_to_filp+0x24/0x33
Nov 28 09:46:36 z kernel:  [<c047fb6c>] do_filp_open+0x37/0x3e
Nov 28 09:46:36 z kernel:  [<c047f8a6>] get_unused_fd_flags+0x52/0xc5
Nov 28 09:46:36 z kernel:  [<c047fbbb>] do_sys_open+0x48/0xca
Nov 28 09:46:36 z kernel:  [<c047fc76>] sys_open+0x1c/0x1e
Nov 28 09:46:36 z kernel:  [<c040518a>] syscall_call+0x7/0xb
Nov 28 09:46:36 z kernel:  =======================
Nov 28 09:46:36 z kernel: device eth0 entered promiscuous mode
Nov 28 09:46:36 z kernel: bridge-eth0: enabled promiscuous mode


Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):

kernel-2.6.23.1-49.fc8

How reproducible:

Always.

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Comment 1 Chuck Ebbert 2007-12-07 21:03:43 UTC

Looks like a bug in the vmware network driver.